FACT - Friends of Alum Creek and Tributaries
Volunteers working to preserve and protect the quality & beauty of the Alum Creek watershed and promote environmentally responsible recreation, educational opportunities, & citizen participation at many levels.
Great experience. I took a bike ride on the alum creek trail and Inniswood needs some trash cleanup
Happy April. Here's Ohio DNR 1 minute video showing off our State's native plants and flowers.
In celebration, we should all take an hour or two to remove invasive plants, especially honeysuckle!
Reduce your grass lawn footprint, instead plant native trees, and wildflowers. Add natural green habitat preserves, watershed protection buffers. Please remove invasive species like honeysuckle, garlic mustard, Bradford Callery pear trees, others that crowd out native plants. ohiodnr.gov/wps/portal/gov/odnr/discover-and-learn/plants-trees/invasive-plants/invasive-plants
Help with FACT's cleanup this Saturday morn at Columbus Academy Park. www.facebook.com/events/3765284323525574 If you can, please register for this Green Columbus Earth Day volunteer service event via. www.givepulse.com/event/227688
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When this happens, it's usually because the owner only shared it with a small group of people, changed who can see it or it's been deleted.I can’t do the register thing ( why is technology so hard )but Jeff and I will be there!
Do you desire trees and would you like more preserved in Columbus? www.columbusufmp.org/get-involved.html Check out the Urban Forestry Master Plan, where you can see the draft documents, the details on the Columbus City Council hearing (3/24), and submit comments (by 3/31).
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The Columbus Urban Forestry Master Plan draft is available for public comment! There are two draft documents available for review below: the Urban Forestry Master Plan and the accompanying Technical...FACT is presently updating our email list; the only e-means outside of this FaceBook Page to communicate directly to you about volunteer events, watershed issues and FACT needs. Please visit www.friendsofalumcreek.org bottom of home page 'Subscribe to Updates' or email your request to info@friendsofalumcreek.org - if you haven't received an email from us this year. We really don't send many emails to to our subscribers, members, supporters, municipalities, businesses, partners. Your contact info is not shared and you may unsubscribe at anytime. Thanks for your help.
Q. How many Great Blue Herons do you see in the wide picture?
FACT president Dick Lorenz shared this photo of the magnificent birds seen recently in some large trees along the Alum Creek corridor in Westerville. A heron rookery (cluster of nests) is about 1/4 mile upstream from this location.
[For those that need extra help zooming in, a couple zoom/cropped pictures are also included.]
Bonus question: Is there a special term for a group of herons?
There is usually one on Alum Creek during warm weather in the area between Columbus and Bexley.
hint: if it's perched on a wire, it's not a heron...
City Council to Hold Public Hearing on Columbus Climate Action Plan. Tuesday, March 9, 2021 5:00 pm.
Councilmember Emmanuel V. Remy will host a virtual hearing to discuss and gather resident feedback on the City of Columbus' Climate Action Plan (CAP). Please join us to hear a presentation on the CAP from the Sustainable Columbus team. The CAP is in draft mode, and can be found here: www.columbus.gov/sustainable/cap/
If you would like to provide written testimony, or sign up to provide three (3) minutes of public testimony during the virtual meeting, please email Lucy Frank at ljfrank@columbus.gov with the subject line "CAP Public Hearing 3/9" with your NAME, ADDRESS, and TOPIC of written or public testimony.
Where: The hearing will be live-streamed on the City’s YouTube channel and Facebook, or 1-650-479-3207 Access code:
160 575 8658
late season winterscapes within our watershed. Westerville Boyer, Columbus Innis, Easton.
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The Columbus Urban Forestry Master Plan draft is available for public comment! There are two draft documents available for review: the Urban Forestry Master Plan and the accompanying Technical Report that details assessment methods. FACT note- There's no existing tree protection regs for private property and commercial development (except for stream corridor protection buffer set-back). www.columbusufmp.org/get-involved.html?utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery
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So much of the tree canopy in Columbus (over 80%) is located on privately-held land. For this reason, real progress in increasing tree canopy within the city requires work and involvement of...